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Scenes From the Wilander Winnebago

I followed Mats Wilander for a story about his unusual post-playing occupation as a tennis coach who makes house calls. The first thing I learned while reporting: When you drive a Winnebago, you attract attention. When you drive a Winnebago with enormous images of tennis players plastered on the side, you attract a little extra attention. Especially in gusty conditions.

Jason Henry for The Wall Street Journal

Mats Wilander, right, and assistant Cameron Lickle travel around the country in Wilander on Wheels, conducting tennis clincis.

“The wind can really move it,” Wilander said of his Winnebago, which he purchased in 2000 and now uses to travel from one tennis clinic to the next. “Sometimes you swerve.”

On a road trip from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., last year, Wilander and Cameron Lickle, his business partner, were pulled over around 3 a.m. near Beale Street in Memphis, after a show at a blues club. The officers brought a drug-sniffing dog on the Winnebago before giving the all clear, the Swedish star said.

As the Winnebago approached Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., around 10:30 p.m. one February evening, the cops inquired again—with much funnier results. Two police cars pulled up behind the Winnebago. Their lights flashed. Wilander was asked to exit the vehicle. He did.

“Walk backwards with your hands up,” he was told. A strange request, but sure, he did it. “We have a report that this vehicle was stolen from Idaho,” one officer said. Wilander chuckled. “Stolen? That’s really funny.” Then, “Pop! Pop! Pop!”—three tennis balls bounced off the rear of the Winnebago and the officers began to laugh.

When Wilander turned around, Deputy Ira Peskowitz, who had taken a lesson earlier in the week, was there to greet him.

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